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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (3191)	3/18/2004 9:11:08 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

It seems that there is a greater availability of organic products everywhere now. IMO, a big hitch in the growth has been due to the lack of a reliable distribution system. Getting started is a bit of a chicken-or-egg problem. Very much the same challenge that goat milk producers faced about 20 years ago. You could produce the milk, but nobody wanted to take a chance on setting up cheese or fluid milk processing in case the supply of milk wasn't large enough or the stores wouldn't carry it. Stores didn't want to carry the products if they couldn't count on a steady supply. Milk producers didn't want to produce the milk if they couldn't get a reliable processor. Eventually, the goat milk industry did get going. Much of the success was actually due to a few very persistent producers in Canada and the U.S. -- people who owned and milked the goats, and then went out on a limb to set up their own cheese plants. Laura Chenel in California was one of the first to seriously market chevre cheeses, and when Alice Waters began using them at Chez Panisse, that certainly helped to move things along. Up here in Ontario, it was probably Woolwich Cheese that broke the same ground. Their cheese is now distributed across N.A. I've even found Woolwich chevre in mainstream grocery stores while travelling through CA and OR, which is kind of neat.